EP3110916A1 - Procédé pour la conversion d'une charge de départ d'hydrocarbures de point d'ébullition élevé en produits hydrocarbures de plus faible point d'ébullition - Google Patents
Procédé pour la conversion d'une charge de départ d'hydrocarbures de point d'ébullition élevé en produits hydrocarbures de plus faible point d'ébullitionInfo
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a process for converting a high- boiling hydrocarbon feedstock into lighter boiling hydrocarbon products. More in detail, the present invention relates to a process for converting hydrocarbons, especially hydrocarbons originating from refinery operations, such as for example atmospheric distillation unit or a fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC), into lighter boiling hydrocracked hydrocarbons having a boiling point of cyclobutane and lower.
- refinery operations such as for example atmospheric distillation unit or a fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC)
- crude oil is processed, via distillation, into a number of cuts such as naphtha, gas oils and residua.
- cuts such as naphtha, gas oils and residua.
- Each of these cuts has a number of potential uses such as for producing transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel and kerosene or as feeds to some petrochemicals and other processing units.
- Light crude oil cuts such as naphtha's and some gas oils can be used for producing light olefins and single ring aromatic compounds via processes such as steam cracking in which the hydrocarbon feed stream is evaporated and diluted with steam then exposed to a very high temperature (800°C to 860°C) in short residence time ( ⁇ 1 second) furnace (reactor) tubes.
- the hydrocarbon molecules in the feed are transformed into (on average) shorter molecules and molecules with lower hydrogen to carbon ratios (such as olefins) when compared to the feed molecules.
- This process also generates hydrogen as a useful by-product and significant quantities of lower value co-products such as methane and C9+ Aromatics and condensed aromatic species (containing two or more aromatic rings which share edges).
- the heavier (or higher boiling point) aromatic rich streams such as residua are further processed in a crude oil refinery to maximize the yields of lighter (distillable) products from the crude oil.
- This processing can be carried out by processes such as hydro-cracking (whereby the hydro-cracker feed is exposed to a suitable catalyst under conditions which result in some fraction of the feed molecules being broken into shorter hydrocarbon molecules with the simultaneous addition of hydrogen).
- Heavy refinery stream hydrocracking is typically carried out at high pressures and temperatures and thus has a high capital cost.
- US patent application No 2009/0050523 relates to the formation of olefins by thermal cracking in a pyrolysis furnace of liquid whole crude oil and/or condensate derived from natural gas in a manner that is integrated with a hydrocracking operation.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing light boiling hydrocarbon products which can be used as a feedstock for further chemical processing.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for converting a high-boiling hydrocarbon feedstock into high value products, wherein the production of low value products such as methane and C9+ aromatics species is minimized.
- the present invention relates to process for converting a high- boiling hydrocarbon feedstock into lighter boiling hydrocarbon products, said lighter boiling hydrocarbon products being suitable as a feedstock for petrochemicals processes, said converting process comprising the following steps of:
- each hydrocracking unit(s) comprising at least a steam cracking unit and one or more units chosen from the group of pentane dehydrogenation unit, propane dehydrogenation unit, butane dehydrogenation unit and mixed propane-butane dehydrogenation unit.
- the lighter boiling hydrocarbon fractions from all hydrocracking units in said cascade of hydrocracking unit(s) are hydrocarbons having a boiling point lower than cyclobutane, or in a preferred embodiment methylpropane (isobutene).
- the lighter boiling hydrocarbon fractions from all hydrocracking units in said cascade of hydrocracking unit(s) are hydrocarbons having a boiling point lower than C5, more preferably lower than C6.
- each hydrocracking unit present in the cascade of hydrocracking units is optimised to a specific yield distribution of lighter products, e.g. one hydrocracking unit to make mainly propane and another hydrocracking unit to make mainly butane.
- one hydrocracking unit to make mainly propane and another hydrocracking unit to make mainly butane e.g. one hydrocracking unit to make mainly propane and another hydrocracking unit to make mainly butane.
- cascade of hydrocracking unit(s) means a series of hydrocracking units.
- the hydrocracking units are separated from each other by a separation unit, i.e. a unit in which the cracked feedstock is separated into a top stream comprising a light boiling hydrocarbon fraction and a bottom stream comprising a heavy hydrocarbon fraction.
- the bottom stream comprising a heavy hydrocarbon fraction of such a hydrocracking unit is a feedstock for a subsequent hydrocracking unit.
- Such a construction is different from a construction wherein several catalyst beds are arranged vertically wherein the effluent from one bed is cascaded into another bed, namely from the top bed into the bottom bed, since such a cascade does not apply the intermediate step of withdrawal of the complete effluent and the separation thereof into a top stream comprising a light boiling hydrocarbon fraction and a bottom stream comprising a heavy hydrocarbon fraction, wherein the bottom stream comprising a heavy hydrocarbon fraction is a feedstock for a subsequent hydrocracking unit.
- the separation unit herein may comprise several separation sections.
- the choice of the petrochemicals processes mentioned before is dependent on the composition of the light boiling hydrocarbon fractions. If, for example a stream mainly comprising C5 is obtained, the pentane dehydrogenation unit would be preferred. In addition, such a stream mainly comprising C5 can be sent to high severity catalytic cracking (including high severity FCC) for making propylene and ethylene as well. If, for example a stream mainly comprising C6 is obtained, a process such as light naphtha aromatization (LNA), reforming and mild hydrocracking, would be preferred.
- LNA light naphtha aromatization
- the present process further comprises separating said light boiling hydrocarbon fractions into a stream comprising C1 , a stream comprising C2, a stream comprising C3 and a stream comprising C4 and preferably feeding said stream comprising C3 to a propane dehydrogenation unit and preferably feeding said stream comprising C4 to a butane dehydrogenation unit, respectively.
- the stream comprising C2 is preferably fed to a gas steam cracker unit.
- the present method comprises as specific petrochemicals processes the combination of a gas steam cracker unit and at least one unit chosen from the group of a butanes dehydrogenation unit, a propane dehydrogenation unit, a combined propane-butanes dehydrogenation unit, or a combination of units thereof to produce a mixed product stream.
- This combination of units provides a high yield of the desired products, namely olefinic and aromatic petrochemicals, wherein the portion of the crude oil converted to LPG is increased significantly.
- the lighter boiling hydrocarbon fractions from all hydrocracking units in said cascade of hydrocracking unit(s) are hydrocarbons having a boiling point greater than methane and equal to or lower than that of cyclobutane.
- a hydrocarbon feedstock for example crude oil
- ADU fractional distillation column
- the material boiling at a higher temperature than 12 °C the boiling point for cyclobutane
- a series (or cascade) of hydrocracking process reactors with a range of (increasingly severe) operating conditions / catalysts etc. chosen to maximise the yield of material suitable for other petrochemicals processes (such as steam crackers or dehydrogenation units) without the need for another stage of hydrocracking.
- lighter material is separated from the lighter products and only the heavier materials are fed to the next, more severe, stage of hydrocracking whilst lighter material is separated and thus not exposed to further hydrocracking.
- This lighter material (boiling point ⁇ 12 °C) is fed to other processes such as steam cracking, dehydrogenation processes or a combination of these processes.
- the present invention will be discussed in more detail in the experimental section of this application.
- the present inventors optimise each step of the hydrocracking cascade (via chosen operating conditions, catalyst type and reactor design) such that the ultimate yield of desired products (material with boiling point higher than methane and lower than cyclobutane) is maximised and capital and associating operating costs are minimised.
- the present process further comprises separating hydrogen from the lighter boiling hydrocarbon products and feeding the hydrogen thus separated to a hydrocracking unit in the cascade of hydrocracking unit(s), wherein the hydrogen thus separated is preferably fed to a preceding hydrocracker unit in the cascade of hydrocracking unit(s).
- the hydrocarbon feedstock can be a cut from a crude oil atmospheric distillation unit (ADU), such as naphtha, ADU bottom stream, atmospheric gas oils, and products from refinery processes, such as cycle oils from an FCC unit or heavy cracked naphthas.
- ADU crude oil atmospheric distillation unit
- the temperature in the first hydrocracking unit is lower than the temperature in the second hydrocracking unit.
- the particle size of the catalyst present in the cascade of hydrocracking units decreases from the first hydrocracking unit to the subsequent hydrocracking unit(s).
- the reactor type design of the present hydrocracking unit(s) is chosen from the group of the fixed bed type, ebulatted bed reactor type and the slurry phase type. This may involve a series of dissimilar processes such as first a fixed bed hydrotreater, followed by a fixed bed hydrocracker, followed by an ebullated bed hydro-cracker, followed by a last hydrocracker which is a slurry hydrocracker.
- the reactor type design of said hydrotreating unit is of the fixed bed type
- the reactor type design of said first hydrocracking unit is of the ebulatted bed reactor type
- the reactor type design of said second hydrocracking unit is of the slurry phase type.
- Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the process of the invention.
- crude oil feed 1 an atmospheric distillation unit 2 for separating the crude oil into stream 29, comprising hydrocarbons having a boiling point of cyclobutane, i.e. 12 °C, and lower.
- Bottom stream 3 leaving distillation unit 2 is fed to a hydro processing unit 4, for example a hydro treating unit, wherein the thus treated hydrocarbons 5 are sent to a separation unit 6 producing a gaseous stream 8, a hydrogen comprising stream 10 and a bottom stream 13 comprising hydrocarbons having a boiling point of cyclobutane and higher.
- separation unit 6 has been identified as a single separation unit, in practice such a separation unit may comprise several separation units.
- Stream 13 is fed into a hydrocracking unit 15 and its effluent 16 is sent to a separation unit 17 producing gaseous stream 18, a hydrogen comprising stream 10 and a bottom stream 20 comprising hydrocarbons having a boiling point of cyclobutane and higher. Hydrogen make up is indicated with reference number 41 .
- the effluent 20 from separation unit 17 is sent to a further hydrocracking unit 22 and its effluent 23 is sent to a separation unit 24 producing a gaseous top stream 28, a hydrogen comprising stream 10 and a bottom stream 27.
- Bottom stream 27 can be partly recycled as stream 25 to the inlet of hydrocracking unit 22.
- Bottom stream 27 can be further separated in separation units (not shown here).
- the hydrogen containing stream 10 leaving separation unit 24 is sent to a compressor and returned to the inlet of hydrocracking unit 22. Since hydrocracking unit 22 in this figure is the last hydrocracking unit in the cascade, the reactor type design of this hydrocracking unit 22 is of the slurry phase type.
- aromatization unit 34 and dehydrogenation unit 35 are one or more chosen form aromatization unit, alkylation processes, high severity catalytic cracking (including high severity FCC), light naphtha aromatization (LNA), reforming and mild hydrocracking.
- Separation section 38 produces into individual streams 39, 40, 41 . From individual streams 39, 40, 41 olefins and aromatics can be recovered. Although only three individual streams 39, 40, 41 have been shown, the present invention is not restricted to any number of individual streams.
- hydroprocessing unit 4 hydrocracking unit 15 and hydrocracking unit 22 under such processing conditions that the composition of streams 8, 18 and 28 are such that each of streams 8, 18 and 28 is sent to one or more different processing units, as mentioned before.
- separator section 30 can be by- passed.
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